It's Itachi talking to Deidara. He starts.

"Hey."

"Hey."

"Aren't you supposed to be on a mission?"

"Aren't you?"

"No."

"Yeah."

"What?"

"Me either, yeah."

"So, you came from the Stone Village."

"Yeah, and you're from the Leaf, yeah?"

"Yes."

"You have family there, yeah?

"You could say that."

"Yeah?"

"I killed everyone except for my little brother."

"Oh. I guess that's a good reason to leave, yeah."

"Yes."

"...What is it like, in the Stone? I've never been."

"Rocky. Empty. A few trees, not much water... Yeah."

"I see."

"How could you see? You've never been, yeah?"

"It's an expression."

"Oh."

"... Are you going with Kisame? Sasori thinks you are... Yeah."

"...What's it to you?"

"Curious...Yeah."

"No, I'm not. Kisame has a wife, if you didn't know."

"How could he have a wife? He's with us, yeah?"

"She doesn't know that he's with us. She's not from the mist. He tries to spend each weekend with her. He tells her that he's a very busy ninja, and they do come from warring countries."

"Yeah?"

"To top it all of, she is going to give birth to his child in five months."

"Agreed."

"Are you...?"

"No. I don't have the time for that."

"I guess you screw around a lot, yeah."

"No. The only 'screwing around,' as you call it, that I have done is when Kisame convinced me that it was good."

"Was it?"

"Not really. It was just something I had to do to please him. There was no passion."

"Was it with...?"

"No. Not with Kisame. It was with a prostitute of some sort. Have you...?"

"I was too young to think about that when I left the Stone, and I haven't had the time or need since... Yeah."

"How old are you, anyway?"

"Nineteen now, yeah."

"That's a long time to hold on to a cherry in modern times."

"Yeah."

"Maybe it's for the best. If you were to bear the child of one of us, then the child would be extraordinarily strong."

"Yeah. But who would I get with, Sasori? Kisame? I don't like the others enough to get into a relationship with, yeah."

"... Are you hungry?"

"Why?"

"I am. Would you like to get something with me?"

"Yeah."